I had to do research on these bottles of root beer that Quark brought to Rom's Quarters. I don't remember any brands of root beer that were like Mickey's big mouth... you can't see it in any of the scenes, but the root beer bottles have a tree growing out of the earth. And only the words "curiously delightful" underneath.
I was almost hoping that they had used A&W root beer or Barqs/Quarks... something that would serve as an almost in-ep ad for a real product, like the way the last season of Roswell served as a plug for Snapple.
This episode is unique in that it has the Quark-Odo antagonism on basically equal footing. For the first four seasons, Odo always had the advantage because he could turn into a Tarkassian Razorbeast, a painting, a table, chair (a man alone) or a fifth drinking glass ("Vortex").
But not this time. He has to use his wits to try to get what he wants out of Quark. And we find out indeed, in this episode he was tricking Quark. He might have succeeded had not a certain conclave of crooks which we will hear more about later in this season planted certain items that would explode. Thankfully, Ferengi ears are sensitive.
This episode used the perfect location to make us believe in an "L-Class Planet". I have hiked up that very path that they filmed on and indeed it looks that wonderful.
Meanwhile while Quark and Odo try to learn what parts of alien plants are edible, the NoJake consortium is becoming the No-Jake (and No-Nog) consortium. As JakeNog finally learn that, as good friends that they are, they are in fact two members of two different species that normally don't get along very well. They had known this all along, but they seem to have forgotten it before becoming roommates.
Which is actually an excellent illustration of things that actually happen to good friends who decide to become roommates even here, on earth. Sometimes it just doesn't work out very well. And that was when the "RomBen" consortium figures out a way to trick the NoJake Consortium... which shows that parents can be as devious as their kids.
And... the DS9 Runabout body count keeps growing...
I was almost hoping that they had used A&W root beer or Barqs/Quarks... something that would serve as an almost in-ep ad for a real product, like the way the last season of Roswell served as a plug for Snapple.
This episode is unique in that it has the Quark-Odo antagonism on basically equal footing. For the first four seasons, Odo always had the advantage because he could turn into a Tarkassian Razorbeast, a painting, a table, chair (a man alone) or a fifth drinking glass ("Vortex").
But not this time. He has to use his wits to try to get what he wants out of Quark. And we find out indeed, in this episode he was tricking Quark. He might have succeeded had not a certain conclave of crooks which we will hear more about later in this season planted certain items that would explode. Thankfully, Ferengi ears are sensitive.
This episode used the perfect location to make us believe in an "L-Class Planet". I have hiked up that very path that they filmed on and indeed it looks that wonderful.
Meanwhile while Quark and Odo try to learn what parts of alien plants are edible, the NoJake consortium is becoming the No-Jake (and No-Nog) consortium. As JakeNog finally learn that, as good friends that they are, they are in fact two members of two different species that normally don't get along very well. They had known this all along, but they seem to have forgotten it before becoming roommates.
Which is actually an excellent illustration of things that actually happen to good friends who decide to become roommates even here, on earth. Sometimes it just doesn't work out very well. And that was when the "RomBen" consortium figures out a way to trick the NoJake Consortium... which shows that parents can be as devious as their kids.
And... the DS9 Runabout body count keeps growing...